Justice League Unlimited: Season 1, Volume 1 (DVD)

Remind me of Saturday morning cartoons. Better days of my youth.

This set of animated adventures at some point includes all the members of the expanded Justice League. There are three episodes, in the first members of the League battle a berserk giant nuclear powered robot. It is running amok in China and at first the leadership there denies that there is a problem despite the trail of massive devastation. The League members must navigate around the principles of national sovereignty while fighting a menace where it is clear that it will not be contained by local forces. It is unfortunate that Supergirl is portrayed as being dominated by emotions rather than the need to contain and control her powers. In the second episode the child wizard Mordred acquires extreme magical powers while being completely unable to control his whims and impulses. Adults, even the members of the Justice League, are powerless against him. With the aid of Mordreds mother, the members of the League take extraordinary measures to modify themselves so that they can circumvent the power that Mordred has over adults. The final episode relies on Greek mythology, where Ares, the god of the violence of war is involved in a civil war. His goal is not to pick a side and see that it wins, but to simply keep the battles raging and the death count growing. Members of the League must take on a malevolent god doing what is in his fundamental nature. It is an interesting premise, one that is not well enough explained so that some viewers will not understand the antagonists. The animation is very good and the dialog superb. Many times, the dialog of superhero videos is weak, that is not the case here.